Description
This vintage victorian postcard was made by Davidson Bros, London/New York Series 753-1 It depicts a welcoming country homestead with cows quietly grazing The boarder is a silver with white scroll detail & sets off the sepia tone of the scene Sending Greetings for a Bright Christmas It is in beautiful condition - no rips tears or bends It has not been postmarked & is signed to the receiver Miss Neuman From Lizzie Kerrick Deltiology, the official name for postcard collecting, is thought to be one of the three largest collectable hobbies in the world along with coin & stamp collecting. Postcards are popular because of the wide range of subjects, with just about every subject imaginable being at some time, portrayed on a postcard. History itself can be tracked on postcards, from historical buildings, famous people, art, holidays & more. The Years from 1900-1918 are known to collectors as the "Golden Age of Postcards" & during this period, people sent postcards for any occasion. At the end of this period in time, the hobby of collecting picture postcards became the greatest collectible hobby that the World had ever known. Previously & during this period most of the postcards were still being printed in Europe, especially by the Germans whose printed methods were the best in the world. These cards exhibited the brightest colors & the finest artwork. Some of the most prolific card artists moved to Germany. Postcard collecting became a public addiction. My favorite postcards are the Holiday cards- Christmas, Easter , Valentines Day & my absolute favorite - Halloween! Some of the more popular vintage Halloween postcards are those signed by the artistsuch as Clapsaddle & Brundage cards. Postcards, the precursor of the standard modern greeting card, were prolific for Halloween beginning in the late 1800s. Generally, these can be found for as little as $10.00 to $20.00 on up to several hundred dollars for rarer cardsespecially those that are mint & unused. Some become very collectible too because of the writing on the back of the postcards. Halloween celebrations of yesteryear were occasions for hopeful romantics to try their fate in love, & were commemorated in rhymes, chants, trials & tests. For early twentieth-century romantics the harvest garden was especially ripe with fortune-telling symbolism. in 1843, a wealthy British man named Sir Henry Cole had so many greetings to send, he couldn't hand write them all. So he had a card made showing charity to the poor, & the Christmas card was born. Subsequent postcards produced by publishers from the 1870s until World War I featured everything from nativity scenes to families around the Christmas tree. Early cards were lithographed & often adorned with silk, lace, & satin. Between 1898 & 1918, the golden era of postcards, Christmas postcards were the most popular vehicle for conveying holiday wishes. Christmas postcards featuring Santa Claus or Saint Nicholas are the most collectible, particularly the early
